Needless to say, there were a lot of videos of police misconduct released this year and that appears to be a trend due to a combination of the diligence of a populous armed with now-commonplace hand-held video technology and the expansion of surveillance and on-board dashcams in police vehicles. The Orwellian dream realized of 24/7 monitoring of civilian life appears to be a double-edged sword for police, though it’s also true that they continue to fight to keep such videos under wraps… many more videos were mentioned in reports that never made it out to the public, kept under wraps thanks to laws in some states that keeps information about misconduct secret.